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Argenteus

/ar-JEN-tee-us/
🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate

Also known as: argentea, argenteum

A color epithet describing a plant with conspicuously silver or silvery-white parts — usually foliage covered in dense silver hairs, or fruits and bark with a metallic silver sheen. Distinct from glaucus (blue-grey bloom) and albus (white). Appears as argenteus (masculine), argentea (feminine), or argenteum (neuter).

Etymology

From Latin argenteus, meaning "of silver" or "silver-coloured," from argentum (silver).

Example

Artemisia argentea and Convolvulus cneorum have the intensely silver, reflective foliage that fully justifies the silver epithet.

Example Plant

🌿Cornus alternifolia argentea